Is this a sin? Saying "food of the gods"?

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In what context? Are they joking around? Is it a line from a play? I vaguelly recall that line in Scrooge…
 
It’s a common figure of speech, going back to ancient Greece.

Not to be taken as implying that you literally believe in multiple gods.

In fact the highest seating levels of theatres are commonly called ‘the gods’, mainly because they are eye-to-eye with the area above the stage from which actors playing the ancient mythological deities would be suspended so they were appearing to fly or float 🙂

Here endeth the trivia lesson 🤓
 
My thought is that, like much speech, it depends on how you mean it and how others would understand you to mean it.

Most people would probably understand it as a figure of speech, which I would imagine is also how you mean it, so no harm done.

As a Catholic, I sometimes refer to my very Catholic husband as the “fertility god” of our area – and we both know that he is not God! 😃
 
If it’s a classical reference, I sort of understand it, although I’m a kind of classical scholar myself but I don’t feel inclined to employ that figure. Roleplaying geeks will also tend to use “gods” in the plural because of the polytheistic systems in the fantasy worlds.

I could probably come up with something like, “by mercy of Hades!” but that would obviously be a comical accent - similar to my old, “Sancta Logica, ora pro nobis!”

I don’t find it proper to invoke pagan gods that way, unless maybe as purely mental concepts without foundation in reality, and I don’t really find it proper to bother Christian saints or good spirits, let alone God Himself that way.
 
If saying it’s a sin, then so would “Holy Cow!” and if “Holy Cow!”'s out, then I’m in BIG TROUBLE, since that’s just about the only swear word I have left.
 
Food of the gods, or Theobroma in Greek, is a term related to what the Greek pagan pantheon would eat, such as ambrosia and nectar. (There’s more information on ambrosia and nectar here.)

“Food of the gods” is a term commonly used to praise a particular delicacy in culinary arts today, as in food that is fit for a god or fit for a king. Of course, no one’s expecting that your husband’s stuffed pork chops are going to be on Zeus’ dinner plate tomorrow night.

I think I can understand the term’s its pagan roots from a little googling, but in no way do I think of any food as “holy” that has been presented before pagan gods - since I don’t believe that those gods exists, nor do they actually eat anything. Therefore, there is no such thing as actual “food of the gods,” unless you’re reading some Hellinistic literature.

Since in modern times we have a fruit salad named ambrosia, I see no harm in saying that a delightful tidbit would be food of the gods, since I don’t believe in those gods.

To recognize the phrase “food of the gods” in its historical context, there’s no harm in using it. It’s much like a Chrisian driving a Mazda – although the car itself is supposedly named after the pagan god Ahura Mazda, there would be no reason to associate the driver of a Mazda with a god-complex.
 
LilyM said:
In fact the highest seating levels of theatres are commonly called ‘the gods’, mainly because they are eye-to-eye with the area above the stage from which actors playing the ancient mythological deities would be suspended so they were appearing to fly or float 🙂 Here endeth the trivia lesson 🤓
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I just woke from a dead sleep thinking, “Deus ex machina.” LilyM, that was downright mean to plant a definition in my head without the term! 😉
 
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